What system do you use for auditioning and sorting styles ?

If I have a large number, I go through the categories I think I would use, then go through them one by one to bring a song to mind. Conversely, if I need a style for a particular song, I look at the most logical category and choose the closest. There are times, however, when I want a more modern beat to a standard, and look to different styles, or, I may go to a "Music Finder" to see what they suggest, if I am not sure of the song.

Over the years, I have managed to accumulate more than 55,000, of which the vast majority are mediocre at best. I listened to and played every variation of every one of those styles, then made a determination of which songs they would sound good with, then renamed them to the song title. This provided me with about 3,800 styles that were now song specific. When I need a style for a specific song, I just look it up by the song title in the list of styles.

Good luck,

Gary

Ive seen some people rename a style to a song name

As for 'auditioning' styles, I just download the style to the KB and play it a few times, at various tempos, and try to 'hear' a song it will fit ... once I have chosen a song, I will 'tweak' the style - perhaps change/add/eliminate voices or parts, whatever, and if I have changed the style to fit a particular song, I will save the style in a USER section and rename it to the name of the song ...

Still a weak point in the pa4x...

On my Pa700 I use the styles in a folder as direct styles. If find something I like I store it in a user style slot.

Hi
I basically have a style database. I sorted them into genres that matched the keyboard.
First up I go thru the onboard styles, if I can’t find a suitable one , I then check thru the database. When I find a suitable one I copy it to a user slot, modify it, tweak it , (whatever it needs )save it.
Sometimes I do name style after a song especially if I’ve modified style for it.